Old Coot’s ‘Memories’ Of Imperial Palace’s Black Swans Were All A Bit Cuckoo
Japan is often held up as a potential source of a black swan event in the financial world, but much closer to home, I have had a decades-long “memory” of black swans in Tokyo. But it looks like my recollections of the graceful birds symbolic of the state of Western Australia were more than a bit cuckoo. My mind is convinced that there used to be at least a pair of black swans living the Imperial Palace moat in Tokyo in the 1990s, but no amount of searching has been unable to unearth any evidence, and I have no proof myself. I could have sworn I saw them, especially as…